Félix Gaillard (Physician at the Nouméa penal colony) - Lot 50

Félix Gaillard (Physician at the Nouméa penal colony) New Caledonia, 1885-1886. Le Calédonien. Le Magellan. Nou Island. Hôpital du Marais. Penitentiary. Convict burial. Doctors' house. Hospital. The convicts' brass band. Prison yard. Death row inmates. Prisoners' huts. Panorama of Ile Nou. Guillotinés. Nouméa church. Nouméa military hospital. Marine infantry barracks. Montravel camp. Nickel mines on the Thio plateau. Houaïlou military post. Devil's bridge on the Païta road. Canala. Pic des morts. Fort Napoléon. Logging in Prony Bay. Canaque huts and villages. Roches Notre-Dame in Hienghene. Maré military post. Rocks on the Maré coast. Oblong in-4 album, titled on the first cover, consisting of a topographic map of New Caledonia, and 44 albumen prints, mounted on cardboard. Handwritten ink captions on mounts. Average size of prints: 15 x 10 cm Bibliography Blanche-Marie Gaillard, Médecin au bagne de Nouméa, Éditions Epistemea, Plouharnel, 2010. A medical student and amateur photographer, Félix Gaillard moved to Nouméa in 1884 to become the prison's auxiliary physician. For three years, he photographed the prisoners, their terrible conditions of detention, the guards, the clerics and the colonial class society.